Apparatus for purifying water.



E. E. BUSCHER.

Pm/nus FOR PURIFYING WATER.

MPUCATION FILED JUNE 28,1917.

1376 025. Patented Aug. 20, 1918.

INVENTOR ATTORNEY WITNESSES PErsRs ca.. PHOY -Llf'"! WASNINOWN. o. c.

EDNA n. BUSCHER, or mnraivar'onfs, INDIANA.-

APPARATUS FOR PURIFYING WATER.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 20, 1918.

Application filed June 28, 1917. Serial No. 177,554.

1 '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDNA E. BUSCHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in. Apparatus for Purifying Water, of which the following is a specification. y

This invention relates'to the purification of water, and more particularly to a distilling apparatus in which an electrical current is employed as the heat producing agent.

The object of the invention it to provide a simply constructed and efficient apparatus of this character which may be attached to an ordinary cold water faucet at any convenient location and in which the water is first heated to purify it and then cooled to render it palatable, both of these operations being effected by electricity.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 represents a front elevation of an apparatus constructed in accordance with this invention,

Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof, and

Fig. 3 is a side elevation, showing a different form of the invention.

The embodiment illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 comprises a water receiving tank 1 having an inlet 2 designed to be connected with an ordinary cold water faucet in the kitchen, or at any desired location. This tank 1 which is closed throughout, has leading therefrom a plurality of pipes 3, any desired number of which may be employed, four being here shown. These pipes, as shown, are arranged in pairs, two leading from one side of the tank and two from the other and their lower ends discharge into a Y-shaped re ceiver 4: which is designed to receive the distilled water from tank 1.

Arranged within the tank 1 is an electrical heater, here shown inclosed in a casing 5 and which may be of any suitable or desired construction.

The Y-shaped hot-water receiving vessel 4c has a faucet 6 disposed above the bottom thereof to provide for the drawing off of water therefrom when desired. Another water container 7 is arranged below the vessel 4 and is preferably-made in the form of a cylinder, although it may be of any other desired configuration. This container 7 as shown forms a continuation of the lower portion of the vessel 4 and is separated therefrom by a transverse partition 8. A pipe 9 connects the two vessels 4 and 7, one end of which opens through the vessel 4 near the partition 8 and the other discharges into the vessel 7 preferably at a point near the top thereof and which is designed to conduct the water from vessel 4 to vessel 7. A faucet 10 is arranged at the bottom of vessel 7 for drawing off the water stored therein and which may be cooled by any suitable means, such as a fan 14..

In the use of this apparatus, which is connected with a faucet, not shown by any suitable means, preferably by a flexible pipe, not shown, which unites the inlet 2 with an ordinary cold water faucet. When a sufficient quantity of water has been admitted to the tank 1, the electrical heater is set in operation and the water heated in said tank rises in the form of steam through pipes 3 and enters vessel 1 where it is con densed and flows through pipe 9 into the container 7 where it may remain and be drawn off through the faucet 10 when de sired. By the use of this apparatus, pure drinking water may be quickly and easily rendered accessible and may be obtained at a very small cost, as the electricity consumed for heating it will cost a very small amount.

The form shown in Fig. 3 operates in the same manner as the form shown in the other figures, the only difference being that the hot water receiving vessel 1' is made in the form of a bowlshaped member and communicates with a similarly shaped cold water vessel 7 by means of a pipe-9 which ppens through the side walls of the two vessels, the vessel 4 being supported on vessel 7.

The tank 1 of this figure is provided with a removable bottom 11 and has a safety valve 12 therein to permit the steam to blow off should the pressure in the tank become excessive. The hot Water receiving vessel 4 is also preferably provided with safety valves as 13, otherwise the construction and operation of this form of the appa,- ratns is the same as that above described.

From the foregoing description, takenin connection with the accompanying drawings, the advantages of the construction and of the method of operation will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains and while I have described the principle of operation of the invention together with the device which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely'illnstrative and that such changes may be made as are within the scope of the claimed invention.

I claim An apparatus of the class'describ ed' comprising a water receiving tank having a domeshaped top, heating means for said tank, a Y-shaped water receptacledisposed in a plane below said tank with a horizontal partition intermediate the ends of the body portion thereof, forming a receiving and a storage chamber, a plurality of pipes leading from the top ofsaitl tank extending in opposite directions, and opening through the upper ends of the arms of said Y-shaped receptacle, a pipe connecting said receiving compartment and said storage compartment leading from the receiving compartment near its bottom and opening into the storage compartment near its top, a faucet in said receiving compartment above its bottom, cooling means arranged in the lower end of said storage compartment, and a'fai'rcet leading from said storage Compartment adjacent'said cooling means.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDNA E. 'BUS CHER. fitnesses RAY VESTAL, OTTO J. FE I ICH'I".

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